REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES. DECLASSIFIED Authority Stateletter Ihr by me NARA 02:09 24 18 MA ego could remain intact so long as intervention and other unpleasantnesses were avoided.
But both the Tinoco interlude and the co to episode were really truer to the fundamental national pattern than was don Ricardo Jiménez successful gesture in forcing an unwilling Congress to accept the 1923 Treaties. confirmation of this fact was a long time forthcoming, but the denunciation of this self same Treaty, on December 24, 1932, by the same don Ricardo Jiménez, marked the return of Costa Rica, to all intents and purposes, to the policy of ssplendid Isolation.
Having briefly examined the cycle of political nationalism, a precursory examination will illustrate how consistently economic nationalism has paralleled this development. In fact, with minor exceptions, nationalism in commerce and industry in Costa Rica has long been a flourishing and puissant factor.
Foreign capital to a large extent has opened up this country, but it has never received the hearty and intimate reception that it has elsewhere. It has been accepted reluctantly, when at all, and then only as a temporary expedient.
without going back farther than the past fifteen years, there are a number of citations that can be made. The Department will recall the time when the sinclair oil interests were anxious to establish themselves in costa Rica and exploit the local petroleum resources, such as they may prove to be. On another occasion the Goodyear Rubber Company